Just an engineering achievement, theres a great dimension to what has been done. What the expansion means for business in suez and egypt. When i cant come to school i get upset. I cry for days to get me socks and shoes. The sacrifices of a teenage girl in south sudan, overcoming overwhelming obstacles to get an education good evening, im antonio mora thiscm al jazeera. We begin in syria, where the Obama Administration suffered a major setback in a push to get moderate rebel forces to fight. Military officials admitted that syrian troops trained by the u. S. At enormous expense refuse to go into battle. Many of the new Syrian Forces fled after coming under attack from other rebel factions. The news coming as the pentagon acknowledged that several of the trained fighters abducted by al nusra front. The u. S. Syria straining programme came under fire since it was announced last year. The white house pledging to train 5,000 a year to combats i. S. I. L. In syria. Only 54 have been trained.
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Secretary of state for exiting the European Union. He talks about the future of brexit and u. S. U. K. Trade relations. This is an hour. An hour. Well, what a behaved crowd. Im the executive Vice President of commerce. Hamber of the u. S. Chamber of ommerce ap u. K. Business counsel, were delighted to host he u. S. Secretary of state david differences. Applause round of is ow secretary davis, this your first visit back to back. Gton, so welcome its an Interesting Times on atlantic, we he have interest ng and complex. Hallenge coming ow that youre off a interesting round of gorks parts which weer look forward to hearing from you. Crowd there are a lot of business leaders. I want to recognize one from the u. N. Who has. One a tremendous yob [applause] an unusual occurrence, years that i 25 labor day. Before a refleck y much shongs of the talks going on in that we have a full of the fore the day labor weekend. D let me turn to secretary davison. As the clock particulars for the king tom t
European going on in equities today. Pray much unchanged on the stoxx index, ever so slightly higher, hitting a record high in this session. Sterling, bucking the trend a little bit as other currencies are treading water. The euro hit the 1. 20 handle in this session. 1. 999, and the 10 year yield, down one basis point ahead of the fed decision and Janet Yellens press conference. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. 7. 2 magnitude earthquake has struck mexican city. It is the countrys second major quake this month and came on the anniversary of the earthquake in 1985. This temporarily closed the airports and halted trading on the mexican stock exchange. It plans to open tomorrow. Hurricane maria has strengthened to a category five storm again with top winds reaching, 175 Miles Per Hour, causing at least six deaths on the island of dominica. Warnednt trump has north korea of military action. The arab nations are looking at ways to remove the regime. Trump is said to have told them th
Anna im anna edwards. Its 6 00 here in london. 7 00 if youre watching in paris or berlin right now. Lets dig into the basf numbers, the German Chemicals business. Adjusted earnings before interest an tax 1. 18 billion. That against an estimate of 1. 16 billion, in line or a touch ahead of that estimate. Q4 sales coming in above the estimate of 14. 1 billion. Theyre proposing a dividend of three euros per share. They say 2017 will be slightly higher. The estimate has been 7. 24 billion for that number. Well get more details as we go through the earnings release. Well be speaking to management of basf. Lots to talk about with chemicals an the agriculture business. Lets also get to some other things coming up in the show. The French Defense business is reporting numbers, theyre reporting number this is morning. They see adjusted renews rising 3 in 2017, thats the guidance part of things. The 2017 adjusted 1. 804 billion and theyre paying a dividend of 1. 52 a share, the divedebbed up by 1